Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy 'Veep' voted in at HBO

Julia Louis-Dreyfus will be joining her former "Seinfeld" boss Larry David on HBO.

The cable channel has picked up
"Veep," a comedy series starring Louis-Dreyfus as a senator who is elevated to vice president. The series will go into production in the fall and is set to premiere next year, Deadline
reports.

The show comes from British writer
Armando Iannucci, who knows the political arena pretty well: He created the cult BBC comedy
"The Thick of It," about a hapless British government minister and his staff, and co-wrote and directed the 2009 movie
"In the Loop," which featured several characters from the series.

In "Veep," Louis-Dreyfus' character, Selina Meyer, will discover that being a heartbeat away from the presidency is not what she expected -- and is exactly what people warned her about before she took the job. The series also stars
Anna Chlumsky ("In the Loop," "Covert Affairs") as Selina's chief of staff and
Tony Hale ("Arrested Development") as another aide, along with
Reid Scott ("My Boys"),
Sufe Bradshaw,
Matt Walsh ("Outsourced," "The Hangover") and
Tim Simons.

Iannucci directed the pilot and co-wrote it with his "The Thick of It" and "In the Loop" colleague
Simon Blackwell. Iannucci,
Chris Godsick and
Frank Rich are the executive producers; Blackwell is a co-exec producer, and Louis-Dreyfus has a producer credit.